I'm surprised to see legitimate (i.e. non-troll) users unable to withdraw.

The writing has been on the wall for such a long time (I've mentioned it before).

Cryptsy is exitting full gox style right now. And it's such a shame...

Yes, you registered in early 2014 and the user database was leaked since then.

Because many people are using several calls per iteration (workers, account, hashrate...), the 10 requests / 10 minutes appeared a bit too low.

Therefore, the new limit is now 20 requests / 10 minutes. Happy new year

Well, I couldn't wait anymore, so I finally did the proxy thing

Anyone who wants to use the AntPool API now should read this thread - MAAAPI!

MAAAPI
Matt's Alternative AntPool API

Info and usage

MAAAPI is an unofficial, alternative API for AntPool. It was created because the official API is currently unusable as a REST API, as it was intended. MAAAPI can be used instead, it is entirely compatible with the official API implementation and actually only acts as a proxy through CloudFlare attack mode filters.

Go to the website to register your API key and use MAAAPI

2016-01-08: Public AntPool block data API has been added!

How can I use it?

First, you need to register your API key on the website.

Then, as the base URL of your API calls simply use http://maaapi.mooo.com/api/... instead of https://antpool.com/api/...

What are the limits?

The default limit is 10 requests per 10 minutes. It is deliberately low because AntPool enforces a per-address policy of 600 requests per 10 minutes on its API backend. Since all requests from MAAAPI to AntPool are channeled through the same address, the limit needs to be low to allow many people to use it at the same time.

If you need a higher limit, please contact support and consider a donation.

Is it safe?

Yes, your API secret will stay secret. Of course, the traffic going through MAAAPI could be sniffed or logged, but there's not much harm that could be done with the API key. It's actually more of a privacy feature than a security feature.

HTTPS?

Yes, but only self-signed. If you would like to help paying for a trusted certificate, please consider a donation.

IPv6?

Yes, MAAAPI is IPv6 enabled

How do I use the AntPool API anyway?

Please refer to the official API guide on AntPool

How can I contact MAAAPI?

The easiest way is to send an e-mail to the contact address on the website or just leave a message here.

Donations

I am very grateful to those who will be considering donations to keep this service alive.

Donations can be sent to 1cYL4oUVD6Pfu4VRhs6veLoBpVMnL51Gi

Thanks a lot for your support!

Go to the website to register your API key and use MAAAPI

It was just a few months, a little bit more than 2 but hardly more than 5. I can't tell exactly because, well, I'm locked out of my history

Anyway, AFAIK all of my accounts there were either empty or dust.

I won't speculate about WTF their policies can be, but yeah, it's quite fucked up.

It's always the same. When diff spikes during a month or so, hash power is oversold. Then when it goes back to plateau for a few months or so, hash power aligns back to ROI-based price. So it's easy to make a profit if you have spare BTC, instead of using insta-trade bots, just buy cheap S7 now and sell when the diff rise is settled in a few months. Profit will be much higher...

Difficulty is hard to predict, yet somewhat predictable. After mining at loss for a few diff rounds, mining farms will shut down any hardware that runs above 0.5 J/GH. Of course it will be instantly compensated with newer hardware, but the rise will be compounded during the renewal / generation shifts.

My 2+ years old account was locked after just a few months of inactivity too.

About 2 weeks ago I wrote them an e-mail request to unlock as mentioned in their message, but no answer.

Fortunately, I wouldn't have trusted them even back then so I never left any significant funds there for any extended period of time. Generally speaking, I wouldn't recommend using them at all and I might just as well stay happy with my account remaining locked forever.

Euuuuhhhh... c'est ça que tu cherches ?



Au cas où, l'idée derrière c'est une protection anti-vol. Tu es obligé de passé par iCloud pour dé-lier ton hardware de ton compte. Même pour une réinstallation totale. Même si tu changes le disque/SSD. Si on te fauche ton Mac, le gars ne pourra rien en faire. La même logique pour les autres appareils mobiles.

En aucun cas on ne peut plus revendre le Mac, il faut juste cliquouiller sur le bouton avant. Une fois dissocié du Mac, le compte est parfaitement utilisable sur n'importe quel autre hardware. Je vois pas trop où es le problème (à moins d'avoir ton compte bloqué, c'est un autre débat).

(oui je sais que le post cité a un an, mais puisque le débat continue...)

Assuming you get 20 KHS from your 2 cores, if you use your VPS for Bitcoin mining, you will make about $0.0000014 / month at current difficulty and market price. Yes, that is 0.0017 cent a year, or 0.168 cent in 100 years, even without any difficulty increase.

Oh yes, if Bitcoin price goes to $100k in 10 years, always at current diff, it will be about $3.30 yield for 10 years of use of your VPS.

This is, of course, assuming your VPS is free, forever.

Any other question?

Hey AntPool team, happy new year and congrats for your success since 2014.

It would be so great if you could fix the API problems sooner than later.

Thanks!

Un simple petit essoufflement. Rien de plus. Circulez, il n'y a vraiment pas grand chose à voir.

Franchement, 100% de croissance en 2-3 mois c'est trop, il faut freiner un peu

Bonnes fêtes à tous en attendant !

With your way of thinking, there is absolutely no way bitcoin could be anything else than a perpetual store of value, any spending of it would be deemed to be considered a huge loss in the future. And the fact that it would be so defeats its purpose, therefore its value, resulting in a paradox IMHO. I'd be interested reading your way of refuting this paradox.

Well I sometimes don't understand when people obsess with Bitcoin being disconnected from the real world. If we agree that a currency should be a universal, liquid mean of exchange of wealth between people, when making a donation to the forum, the fact that the forum will hold it as BTC or exchange it on the spot (like if they were using Bitpay) shouldn't be that much of a concern to you.

As for what the amount is worth, after a transaction has been made, it's a bit silly to look back. Think of the 10KBTC pizza. Some people see it as a stupid act. But others don't, and I belong to them. If you want to look into the past, then do it right. If the pizza guy buys back the 10KBTC at market rate just after paying for his pizza, then do you still think it's stupid?

In other words, imagine that a member spends 50BTC on bitcointalk back in 2010 when it started, then buys back the 50BTC at market rate. Why would it be a question of "honor" if the forum decided to lower the fee in 2015? If the VIP didn't care to buy back the 50BTC back in 2010, that's his mistake, not the forum's or its future members', isn't it?

This seems silly to me. Especially without any rationale to back it. Just saying.

That being said, I'm OK with the fact that usernames just can't be changed.

I believe 15M is, by chance, a sort of milestone, since the remaining 6M are going to be much harder to mine.

Next major milestone is obviously the upcoming reward halving by the end of June...

No, the diff retarget algorithm stays in place.

The economics are unknown but it is supposed to have transitioned to a fee-driven reward model by then...  

What pool is GM mining on, does anybody knows this?

Thanks!

OTOH it's also a good thing for miners, given that it is the primary purpose of HASHNEST

In a way, when bots win, traders lose. But's it's a zero-sum game and a free market after all.

The rising difficulty and the sustained growth in real-world transactions/use.

The long term trend is definitely positive. We shouldn't see exponential growth like before but linear, sustained growth makes perfect sense to match the market with real world growth.